If we want bionic limbs that actually work, we might need smarter amputations
Prosthetic limbs are advancing in leaps and bounds. They’re becoming computerized, brain-controlled, and sensational. But as futuristic as these bionic limbs are, users often prefer simpler devices...
View ArticleThe bionic skin to help robots feel
Meet the team behind the 3D-printed stretchable sensors equipping machines with a sense of touch. Robots can’t feel. Or can they? Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a...
View ArticleNASA releases footage of robot 'Valkyrie'
Scientists from the United States space agency NASA teamed up with the Johnson Space Center to test the agency's new robot Valkyrie, an android that has a head, two arms and two legs. The robot is...
View ArticlehitchBOT creators to study how AI and robots can help patients
McMaster and Ryerson universities today announced the Smart Robots for Health Communication project, a joint research initiative designed to introduce social robotics and artificial intelligence into...
View ArticleThis Parkour Robot Easily Bounces Its Way Over Obstacles
With a spinning tail and small thrusters, it has total control over its orientation in mid-air so that it’s always ready for the next hop. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have...
View ArticleNeuron-integrated nanotubes to repair nerve fibers
Carbon nanotubes exhibit interesting characteristics rendering them particularly suited to the construction of special hybrid devices consisting of biological issue and synthetic material. These could...
View ArticleRice team developing flat microscope for the brain
Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain. Their goal as part of a new...
View ArticleMIT’s Cheetah 3 robot is built to save lives
The latest version of MIT’s Cheetah robot made its stage debut today at TC Sessions: Robotics in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a familiar project to anyone who follows the industry with any sort of regularity,...
View ArticleBionic Man vs Robots: Winning The Jobs Battle
Ever since the Luddites fought back against 19th century industrialization, people have worried about robots ‘stealing’ their jobs. Time and again, the threat has proved real but transitory as new jobs...
View ArticleThis swimming robot may have finally spotted melted nuclear fuel inside...
A robot swimming in the depths of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors may have spotted lumps of molten nuclear fuel inside. If it did, it would be the first robot to successfully locatethe radioactive...
View ArticleThis slug slime-inspired glue can patch up bloody pig hearts and gooey rat...
A new class of tissue glues can seal a punctured pig heart, new research says. Called Tough Adhesives, these new glues could one day help close up wounds in the hard-to-reach, slimy depths of our...
View ArticleUniversity of Adelaide test dragonfly neuron for artificial vision system in...
A dragonfly's ability to predict the movement of its prey is being harnessed to improve the way driverless cars manoeuvre in traffic. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Lund University in...
View ArticleSilicon Valley is selling an ancient dream of immortality
In 1999, the futurist Ray Kurzweil published a book entitled The Age of Spiritual Machines. He looked forward to a future in which the “human species, along with the computational technology it...
View ArticleA robot that will replace your smartphone is already in the works
One day, we will all have robots instead of smartphones. The life-like droids will advise you on various matters, help you buy things, and even make your coffee just the way you like it. That’s the...
View ArticleA Bionic Lens Undergoing Clinical Trials Could Give You Superhuman Abilities...
Maybe you watched Ghost in the Shell and maybe afterwards you and your friend had a conversation about whether or not you would opt in for some bionic upgrades if that was possible - like a liver that...
View ArticleThis vacuum-activated modular robot is equally nasty and neat
Soft robots are a major area of research right now, but the general paradigm seems to be that you pump something (a muscle or tube) full of something else (air, fluid) causing it to change its shape....
View ArticleHow to draw electricity from the bloodstream
Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on a much smaller scale, Chinese scientists have now developed a lightweight power...
View ArticleAmbitious neuroscience project to probe how the brain makes decisions
World-leading neuroscientists have launched an ambitious project to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time: how the brain decides what to do. The international effort will draw on expertise...
View ArticleThis robotic glove will give you bionic hands
A startup called Nuada has developed a soft, robotic glove that gives people with hand pain or weakness a strong grip. According to co-founders Filipe Quinaz and Vitor Crespo, the glove contains a...
View ArticleDeus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Way of the Future, a religious group founded by Anthony Levandowski, wants to create a deity based on artificial intelligence for the betterment of society Intranet service? Check. Autonomous...
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